A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



^37 I/, id. levied on the whole hundred exclusive 

 of the forests.'" 



Osbaldeston and the adjoining vill of 

 MANOR Balderston represent one of the twenty- 

 eight Domesday manors held in 1066 by 

 a freeman " who was probably the ancestor of Ailsi 

 son of Hugh, thegn of these vills in the reigns of 

 Henry II, Richard and John. At a very early date 

 they were included in the fee within this hundred 

 granted by Ilbert or Robert de Lacy to the ancestor 

 of De Arches. Between 11 77 and 1 193 Robert de 

 Lacy confirmed certain privileges to William de 

 Arches which had been granted to his ancestors by 

 Robert's ancestors, particularly the venison taken 

 within his fee."' Before the middle of the next 

 century the mesne lordship of De Arches was ex- 

 tinguished by the grant to John de Lacy from Ad.im 

 de Buckden and Matilda de .Arches his wife of the 

 whole service which Hugh de Osbaldeston owed for 

 the land of Osbaldeston with the appurtenances,'"" 

 which was thenceforth held linf medio of the honor 

 of Clitheroe by the yearly service of 6s. and a sore 

 =pjrrow-hawk." The grant of Sunderland by Ailsi 

 son of Hugh to Sawley Abbey and his subsequent 

 grant of Balderston to his second son arc described in 

 the account of that mesne manor. In 1202 he and 

 his sons Robert and William were amerced by John 

 Bishop of Norwich and his fellow justices in eyre in 

 the county." About the end of the reign of 

 Henry II he enfeoffed Geoffrey de Clayton of land 

 by the Ribble between Studle-clough and the old 

 hedge of O-baldeston carr." Hugh de Osbaldeston 

 succeeded his lather Ailsi during John's reign and 

 made several feoffments of land here to his kinsmen." 

 He lived until shortly before 1256, when Thomas 

 his son and successor made an agreement with 

 William de Balderston, his tenant of the manor of 

 Balderston, touching the services due to him." 



Before 1278 Thomai was succeeded by his son 

 Adam," who released to the monks of Saivley in or 

 about 1286 his right in a plot of wood and pasture 

 called the Mikelfal in Sunderland Wood, for which 

 they conceded tu him all lands approved by him or 

 his ancestors before that time." In i 292 he acquired 

 from Roger de Dewyhurst and Avina his wife a 

 messuage an J land here which Thomas his father had 

 given to William son of Bernard de Samlesbury, father 

 of Avina." He died before I 298, when Thomas his 

 son recorded his claim to a reversionary interest in the 

 manors of Haigh and Blackrod.'" 





Osbaldeston. 

 gent a maicie 

 between three pellets. 



Ar- 

 tahle 



.At the death of Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln 

 in I 3 1 1 Thomas de Osbaldeston held Osbaldeston 

 and Balderston of Alice, 

 mother of the earl, as part of 

 her dower." In 1324 he 

 wa? summoned, as having land 

 to the yearly value of £1^, 

 to attend the Great Council 

 at Westminster." For some 

 time before 1328 he was one 

 of the coroners for the county, 

 until he became incapacitated 

 by illness and infirmity." 

 He married Anabella, by 

 whom he had no issue, was 

 living in 1332, when he paid 



to the subsidy levied in that year," and died before 

 1335. His widow married Roger de Elston, lord of 

 Ribbleton ; both were living in 1 361." He was 

 succeeded b}- his brother, usually described as John 

 son of Adam de Osbaldeston, who made a settlement 

 in 1336 by which two-thirds of the manor and the 

 reversion of one-third held by Roger de Elston and 

 An?.'jella his v\ ife were settled upon himself for life, 

 with remainder to his son Alexander and Katherine 

 daughter of Thomas de Molyneux of the Edge and 

 their issue.'" In Michaelmas term 1344 Joan relict 

 of John de Osbaldeston demanded her dower in 

 two-thirds of the manor from Roger de Alston 

 and Anabella his wife." The date of John de 

 Osbaldeston's death is not recorded ; he left issue 

 Alexander, who had married Katherine de Molyneux 

 before 1336,-'" and a daughter Alice. 



It is probable that Alexander died in his minority 

 about the same time as his father, for his sister Alice 

 repeatcdh- describes herself as daughter and heir of 

 John de Osbaldeston. In 1357 and again in 1360 

 she granted to Thomas son of Henry Banastre of 

 Walton-le-Dale, who had married her brother's 

 wi low, the yearly service of 5/. of Thomas son of 

 William de Osbaldeston, which she had inherited 

 from her father,"*" and the year following released her 

 right in the manor of Osbaldeston and the service of 

 Richard son of John de Balderton for the manor of 

 Balderston." ' Thomas Banastre de Osbaldeston, 

 esquier ' heads the list of contributors to the poll tax 



of 1379." 



The only issue of Alexander de Osbaldeston and 

 Katherine de Molyneux was a son Geoffrey. In 

 1380, at the instance of the Duke of Lancaster, 



10 Bk. of Rates, MS. penes W. Farrer. 

 To the subsidy of 1332 the contribution 

 was 4J. 4u/. 



11 KC.H. Una. i, 286A. 



"a Duchy of Lane. Misc. bdlc. i, 

 no. II. 



^^^ Ibid. no. 3 6, m. 6. Peter de Arches 

 aa mesne lord confirmed the grant of 

 Sunderland to Sawley by Ailsi son of 

 Hugh; Reg. of Sawley, Harl. MS. 112, 

 fol. 62b. 



1' Cal. Inq, p.m. i, 116. His name 

 Ailsi proves him to have been an English- 

 man. 



" Farrer, Lana. Pipe R. 168-9. 



i< Dods. MSS. cxlix, 7. 



^ To Benedict his brother he give land 

 with i%d. yearly service j ibid. 22. To 

 Geoffrey ton of Swain land upon Osbald- 

 Icye with 2J. yearly service ; ibid. 



'^ Final Cone. (Rcc. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Chcs.), i, 123. 



'^ Dc Banco R. 27, m. 119. Sec the 

 account of Thornley, 



18 Reg. of Sawley, HarL MS. 112, fol. 



13 Dods. MSS. cxlix, 22-4. The land 

 in question had been given by Hugh de 

 Osbaldeston to Benedict his brother by 

 bounds beginning at thesyke at the lower 

 end of Hirdmonscroft where the road 

 runs down to the syke, following the 

 Roman road (>/a ferrata) towards tie 

 east to Benelonds at the upper end of 

 Hirdmonscroft, following the edge of the 

 underwood to the meadow and so 

 between the meadow and arable land to 

 the syke on the western side of Henry's 

 house, ascending thesyke to Croised Ake 

 on the south and thence straight to the 

 west to the boundary of Adam son of 



320 



Robert Broun, and so going down thence 

 to the aforesaid road \ rendering \%d, at 

 the Assumption j Kuerden MSS. (ColL 

 of Arms), iii, B 2. 



™ Final Cone. (Rec. Soc Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 185. 



" Lanci. Inq. and Exlenit, ii, 1 4. William 

 de Osbaldeston was a monk at Sawley in 

 131 1 ; Cal. Close, 1307-13, p. 350. 



" PalgraTe, ParL IVrits, i, 639. 



^ Cal. Close, 1327-30, p. 24.6. 



" Exch. Lay Subs. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), 74. 



" Dods. MSS. cxlii, 22A, 27. 



'* Final Cone, ii, 103. 



^ De Banco R. 340, m. 332. 



^^ Katherine was sister and heir of 

 Thomas de Molyneux of Cuerdale. 



^ Dods. MSS. cxlix, 24A, 36A. 



" Ibid. 25, 27. 



^ Lay Subs. Lanes. bd!c. I 30, no. 28. 



